336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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The field of Hiberno-Latin literature, a term coined to describe the Latin literature written in Ireland, or by Irishmen abroad, between 400 and 1500, was first defined by the late Mario Esposito. His work, too, revealed its vast extent and range, so enabling a significantly better understanding of the importance of Irish scholarship in the cultural history of the Western Middle Ages. This volume... Read more
Contents: Foreword; The Latin writers of mediaeval Ireland , with supplement and bibliography; Notes on Latin learning and literature in mediaeval Ireland; The knowledge of Greek in Ireland during the Middle Ages; On the earliest Latin Life of St Brigid; On the ps.-Augustinian treatise "De mirabilibus Sacrae Scripturae"; A 7th-century commentary on the Catholic Epistles; An apocryphal "Book of Enoch and Elias" as a possible source of the Nauigatio S. Brendani; Indexes.
Biography
Mario Esposito, Michael Lapidge
